Construction of low weighted and fault-tolerant topology for wireless ad hoc and sensor network

  • Authors:
  • Hong Zeng;Jianhui Zhang;Guojun Dai

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Sensor Networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

To preserve network connectivity is an important issue especially in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks WASN, where wireless links are easy to be disturbed and tiny sensors are very easy to fail accidently. Therefore, it is necessary to design a fault-tolerant network. A feasible method is to construct a k-connected k-vertex connected topology. In this paper, we consider k-connectivity of wireless network and propose a simple global algorithm GAFTk which preserves the network k-connectivity and reduces the maximal transmission power TP. The average degree expectation of the topology generated by GAFTk is O k + 3² and the expected weight is Ok+3²12√πnnε Based on GAFTk, we further propose an efficient localised algorithm LAFTk which preserves k-vertex connectivity while maintaining bi-directionality of the network. In addition, both algorithms achieve significant reductions in energy consumption. Our simulation results show that GAFT/LAFT have better performance than some other current fault-tolerant protocols.